A Systematic Review of Internet Communication Technology Use by Youth in Foster Care

Sage, Melanie; Jackson, Mark

doi:10.1007/s10560-021-00738-z

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“…For young people, whose lives are intertwined with digital media, such digital spaces offer the potential to reinforce their sense-of-self. While Sage and Jackson concede that more research is needed that is focused on Out-Of-Home Care and digital technology, they argue that it is noteworthy that other marginalised youth including homeless youth and LGBTQI youth are also found to benefit from identity-building opportunities from technologically mediated communication (Sage and Jackson 2021).…”

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“…Youth focus on relationships and the ability to control their narratives and make decisions about their own lives. The view of foster youth is supported by a growing body of longitudinal studies suggesting little relationship between negative mental health outcomes and ICT use for adolescents (Sage and Jackson 2021). While there are no definitive Australian statistics relating directly to young people in Care and technology, four out of five children in Australia have at least one device for their own personal use and an average of three devices (Graham and Sahlberg 2021).…”

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Digital Life Story Work: Linking Identity and Security for Young People in Out-of-Home Care

Deitz,

Morley,

Sutherland

et al. 2024

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While every young person in Out-Of-Home Care (OOHC) has their own unique story, what they do have in common is the experience of a disrupted life. As they move through placements and assigned case workers change roles, young people frequently lack access to important records and memorabilia. A disjointed personal narrative can undermine a young person’s sense of identity and, given this cohort is already at great risk of poor general outcomes when transitioning to adulthood, can put their physical and mental wellbeing at risk. This paper examines the role digital technology can play in supporting identity for young people in OOHC. It does so through consideration of a new Australian digital app called CaringLife and argues for the benefits of future Life Story Work (LSW) in a digital format in conjunction with more conventional formats. We argue that a digital format for life storying has strong potential to address the higher than usual critical issues this group face: unemployment, homelessness, and mental illness.

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Section: Advocating For Digital Livesmentioning

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Digital Life Story Work: Linking Identity and Security for Young People in Out-of-Home Care

Deitz,

Morley,

Sutherland

et al. 2024

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“…As a result, some social workers have relaxed the focus on risk and more readily appreciate the benefits of digital communication (Copson et al., 2022). Sage and Jackson’s (2021) systematic review of young people’s perspectives on digital technology in foster care acknowledges the risks of exploitation, distraction and bullying, and the potential benefits of opportunities for access to information, connection, social capital, normalcy, recreation, empowerment, identity formation and relationship-building. Willoughby’s (2019) systematic review highlights the risks of bullying, abuse, negative social relationships and invasions of privacy.…”

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We can connect: Imagining the future of digital practice with and by care-experienced children and young people

Larkins,

Crook,

O’Riordan

et al. 2023

Adoption & Fostering

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A participatory study with care-experienced children and young people identified longstanding problems in social work with children and recommended service improvements. The authors reflected on a digital resource co-created by this study and speculated on future digital adaptations that might address some of the service development needs that children and young people identified. This was inspired by Haraway’s (1985) call to imagine cyborgification in order to break from dominant thinking while being cautious of how power operates in human-machine conjunctures. The imagined digital adaptations focus on connecting to people and places, leisure, education, accommodation, journey planning through care and systems accountability. Imagining cyborgification highlighted how digital adaptations are embedded in, and not a substitute for, trusting relationships. Adaptations must be co-developed by intergenerational groups of children and professionals. Bourdieu’s (1985 , 1986 ) notions of habitus, field and capitals could guide theoretically informed feasibility testing, drawing attention to distributions of resources. Key questions relate to: When can digital adaptations challenge the dominant habits and politics of social care, strengthen deep relationships and secure social, cultural and economic capital in the hands of young experts and their adult allies, so that systems can redress inequalities and promote accountability?

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“…To better ensure children can benefit from the increasingly default digital interactions expected of all citizens, research has begun to try to unpick this dynamic process and illustrate the potential contributions of children's, parents/carers' and teachers' derived risk and protective mechanisms in the face of online risks (Finkelhor et al, 2021;Haddon et al, 2020;Noll et al, 2021;Odgers & Jensen, 2020;Sage & Jackson, 2021;Stoilova et al, 2021;Tran et al, 2020;. However, our understandings of how children may (or may not) be supported to build, show and in some cases activate digital resilience and how this operates within and across different individual, home, community and societal contexts remains embryonic (Parry et al, 2021;Stoilova et al, 2021;Sun et al, 2022;Vissenberg et al, 2022).…”

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Using a socio-ecological framework to understand how 8–12-year-olds build and show digital resilience: A multi-perspective and multimethod qualitative study

2022

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Educationalists’, researchers’, and policy makers’ work on children’s digital resilience has marginalised the role of the broader context within which digital resilience is constituted, experienced and derived. We aimed to address this lacuna by exploring how pre-teen’s digital resilience operates as a dynamic socio-ecological process. Addressing this aim, we employed participatory methods and thematically analysed eight focus groups with children aged 8–12 years (n = 59) and 20 telephone interviews with parents/carers and teachers of 8–12-year-olds and internet safety experts to examine this issue. We used purposive sampling and collected data over three months (January-March 2020). Our analysis constructed a matrix of main themes, constituent, and cross-cutting sub-themes. By placing this within a socio-ecological framework, we illustrate how pre-teens’ digital resilience operates within and across differing four levels (individual, home, community and societal) and four domains (learning, recognising, managing, and recovery). The paper advances the literature by illustrating how children can be supported to build and show digital resilience within and across different levels and domains. It is argued that digital resilience should be re-conceptualised as a collective endeavour involving children at an individual level, parents/carers within home environments, youth workers, civil society, teachers, and schools at a community level, along with governments, policymakers, and the education system and internet corporations at a societal level. We conclude by providing practice and research recommendations guiding those supporting children to facilitate opportunities to thrive online.

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A Systematic Review of Internet Communication Technology Use by Youth in Foster Care

Cited by 8 publications

References 73 publications

Digital Life Story Work: Linking Identity and Security for Young People in Out-of-Home Care

Digital Life Story Work: Linking Identity and Security for Young People in Out-of-Home Care

We can connect: Imagining the future of digital practice with and by care-experienced children and young people

Using a socio-ecological framework to understand how 8–12-year-olds build and show digital resilience: A multi-perspective and multimethod qualitative study

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